Has there ever been a draft year like 1986 when Len Bias died and so many top choices fizzled because of drugs or other evils?

There will never be a loss of talent like was lost when Len Bias overdosed. You could have just stopped right there with talking about 1986. It took the Boston Celtics years to recover from that loss.

I remember watching the lottery and seeing that huge smile on "Red" Auerbach’s face when they got the first pick. He put that victory cigar in his mouth, and I am sure he was expecting to be able to do that often with Bias in Celtic Green. Everyone knew that was the Len Bias drawing.

I followed the NBA right much back then, and being a Los Angeles Lakers fan I was upset that Boston would have so much talent. It just did not seem fair. I had watched Len Bias shred every team in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Nobody had an answer for his talent. While sometimes college players don’t do so well in the pros, Len Bias I believed was unstoppable on the court. He was faster than Jordan and had an outside shot as good as Larry Bird’s.

I also remember going to see his mother at college when she came to talk on the dangers of drugs, a crusade she took up upon his death. The Celtics would take years to recover from the loss. The rest of the talent from that year contributed little and you have to wonder how much the NBA also lost from the death of Len Bias.

Maryland never fully recovered either. Everybody lost. Such a waste.

The loss of Len Bias was a big loss to the basketball, though. I never see him played ever, but when I have a conversation with a basketball enthusiast he spoke great volumes of the greatness of this remarkable player. He said that he is much better than Michael Jordan, and come to think of it he is also a decent shooter.

Imagine, what he can do for the Boston Celtics’ team and for the league as a whole. He could’ve have been a great asset for the team and a disaster for the opposing team. Nowadays there are many NBA players that are caught with possessing marijuana and were suspended.

Just recently, possessing guns too have taken its toll on the Washington Wizard’s Gilbert Arenas and his teammate Javaris Crittenton as they were caught displaying guns on the Wizards locker last December 2009. Both of these players were suspended for the entire 2009 – 2010 NBA season and without pay. http://www.flickr.com/photos/46892450@N05/4408227669.

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